We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain … contribute less than others, rather than by their changing beliefs of others’ contribution over time. Universal free riding is …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook …

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field … influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others’ behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game … with a leader. We find that leaders strongly shape their followers’ initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds …

different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can …-serving behavior by political parties, but rather stems from their differing beliefs about the consequences of their actions. …

and treat correlated information as independent. In consequence, people’s beliefs are excessively sensitive to well …-connected information sources, implying a pattern of “overshooting” beliefs. Additionally, in an experimental asset market, correlation …

We examine in detail the circumstances under which reciprocity, as defined in Bagwell and Staiger (1999), leads to … fixed world prices. We show that a change of tariffs satisfying reciprocity does not necessarily imply constant world prices … reciprocity and constant world prices, these reforms do not follow from the reciprocity condition, but rather from the requirement …